Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Brockley Coomb | | Lines | | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) |
| | Composed While Climbing the Left Ascent of Brockley Coomb, Somersetshire, May, 1795 |
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WITH many a pause and oft-reverted eye | |
| I climb the Coomb’s ascent; sweet songsters near | |
| Warble in shade their wildwood melody; | |
| Far off the unvarying cuckoo soothes my ear. | |
| Up scour the startling stragglers of the flock | 5 |
| That on green plots o’er precipices browse; | |
| From the deep fissures of the naked rock | |
| The yew-tree bursts! Beneath its dark-green boughs | |
| (Mid which the May-thorn blends its blossoms white) | |
| Where broad smooth stones jut out in mossy seats, | 10 |
| I rest;—and now have gained the topmost site. | |
| Ah! what a luxury of landscape meets | |
| My gaze! Proud towers, and cots more dear to me, | |
| Elm-shadowed fields, and prospect-bounding sea! | |
| Deep sighs my lonely heart: I drop the tear: | 15 |
| Enchanting spot! O, were my Sara here! | | | |
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